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...pearls for a "softer look." The designer wants to send a message that everyday life should go on despite the latest outbreaks of violence in the Middle East. Levi has created similar Miss Universe dresses. She adorned the gown of 1998's Miss Israel with the faces of Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat and Bill Clinton. Her 1999 effort--worn by the first Arab Miss Israel--featured a Star of David. The heavy-duty 2001 creation could also keep Miss Israel safe from the roving eye of pageant director Donald Trump...
...What has this escalation of violence meant for the morale of Israelis? A few years ago, Yitzhak Rabin had inspired them with the possibility of living in peace, and now they're being told by Sharon, and by their own experience of the past six months, that peace is not possible. That has to take its toll on the national psyche...
...Sharon's objective clearly isn't to get hundreds of thousands of Israelis filling the streets of Tel Aviv singing songs of peace and hope. Indeed, he makes clear in the interview that he sees the Oslo peace process started by Yitzhak Rabin as dangerously deluded - and that he, Sharon, has no intention whatsoever of pursuing it. Withdrawing from the Golan Heights or the Jordan Valley or removing the Israeli settlements dotted throughout the West Bank and Gaza deprives Israel of the "strategic depth" to defend herself, Sharon insists. Returning those lands to Arab control - as his predecessors had considered...
...unlikely to rein in Hezbollah. Syria's position has always been that it would ensure Israeli security in Lebanon only as part of a comprehensive peace plan that included Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights, captured from Syria in 1967. Negotiations to that end were begun by the late Yitzhak Rabin, more tentatively pursued through back channels by Benjamin Netanyahu and taken almost to the point of conclusion by Ehud Barak. But Sharon made clear in an interview published over the weekend that he believes Israeli withdrawal from the Golan is unacceptable under any circumstances, and that...
...such well-loved cartoons as Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear and The Flintstones and won the pair seven Oscars; in Hollywood. DIED. GORDON BROWN, 53, Scottish rugby forward who won 30 caps and played in some of the British Lions' most memorable tours, of cancer; in Ayr, Scotland. CONVICTED. YITZHAK MORDECHAI, 55, former Israeli Defense Minister and ex-general, of sexual assault in a case hailed by activists as a breakthrough in the fight against sexual harassment; in Jerusalem. RESIGNED. CHOI SUN-JUNG, 55, as South Korea's Health Minister, to take responsibility for a multibillion-dollar deficit...